Surcharge approval status in Supplier Portal

What impact would it have on your daily tasks in terms of time saving or cost reduction?

This would reduce vendor partial invoicing results in having to manage partial payments which is additional complexity.

How frequently would you use this improvement?

Multiple times per day on every invoice

How should it work?

Create a new field in SC showing whether the surcharges requested by vendor have been approved, rejected, pending approval or no surcharge requested status. In case of "rejected", allow dispatcher messaging to confirm to vendor why surcharge was rejected (to minimize likelihood of vendor attempting to raise the surcharge with the same error for a second time), if "pending" this should allow vendor to understand that their invoicing should be delayed until the surcharge is status "approved" (this would reduce partial invoicing). If "approved", then the vendor can proceed to inovice full base truck plus surcharges in a single invoice. The vendor should ideally invoice Maersk once order status is Ready for Invoice and Surcharge approval status is approved.